Why Top Silicon Valley Investors Are Backing This Nonprofit Startup

Watsi is a less than 2 year old non-profit that has managed to get a star studded list of Silicon Valley investors backing them. They have built a Kickstarter like crowd-funding platform to source money for the medical treatment of poor in the developing world.

Watsi is the very first non-profit that got into the world famous tech incubator Y-combinator. Paul Graham the founder of Y-combinator personally sent a mail inviting Watsi to join and has invested his own money to help them build out their vision. In addition to this they have raised money from Ron Conway (Twitter, Facebook and Google Investor), Vinod Khosla (Sun Microsystems and Khosla Ventures) and Tencent (Chinese Tech Giant) to name a few.

So how did Chase Adam (Founder of Watsi) who has just returned from years of service as a Peace Corp volunteer in remote areas of Central America manage to so quickly break into Silicon Valley and create a top-tier non-profit startup.

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